He holds Dortmund in high regard, but it sounds like he is fed up with losing his top players each summer, and wants to try a new challenge.
The key is where he says he does not want a sabbatical - but rather wants to move straight into a new job.
Unfortunately Liverpool are a selling club, just like Dortmund.
And his star has definitely wained this season.
Rafa is still definitely my man for the Anfield hotseat. Or else Ancellotti - i.e. people with experience and loads of trophies below their belt.
But Klopp may be a decent third choice.
Is Klopp a busted flush, or just worn down by being Munich's nursery club, massively overachieving on that basis?
Klopp in terms of personality is the perfect Liverpool manager. He does things his way, non-conformist without being so intentionally or for the sake of it, but everything is grounded in respect and humility.
We took a far bigger chance appointing Rodgers, and then letting him/the transfer committee (grey men in [insert some ridiculously expensive designer name] grey [or whatever the en vogue colour is] suits loose with a huge kitty last Summer, when their previous record(s) suggested another Comolli/Dalglish sized wall p!ssing exercise would be the result, that's without the instability always created by a mass influx of players.
Klopp would be a lesser risk. Any managerial appointment or player signing is a risk of some sort, but like many of those you can mitigate some of it by the actual choice in question.
What have we got to lose? We've become the recent incarnation of Spurs, and could, more chillingly, become the Aston Villa of the O'Neill era (which we're not far off), and then even worse, beyond the O'Neill era.
